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2026-10-11 15:10:12 GMT

LineageOS 24.0
Link: https://lineageos.org/Changelog-32/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50040276

2026-10-05 13:40:12 GMT

Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
Link: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/horrible-totally-unacceptable-powerless-f1-drivers-frustrated-by-bahrain-f1-software-glitch/10861968/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959869

2026-10-04 19:05:11 GMT

Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
Link: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950554

2026-10-03 08:55:13 GMT

Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
Link: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/loss-of-cell-identity-drives-human
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926411

2026-09-20 08:40:12 GMT

Brood War Bench
Link: https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766966

2026-08-24 21:45:11 GMT

Oceans hit highest temperature on record
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424606

2026-07-26 05:55:11 GMT

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
Link: https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051361

2026-07-13 21:50:13 GMT

Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it
Link: https://werd.io/climate-gov-was-destroyed-open-data-saved-it/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897945

2026-07-07 16:30:11 GMT

A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R0Lp86GEBk
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816956

2026-07-07 16:15:11 GMT

Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)
Link: https://www.nwo.nl/nieuws/eerste-internationale-wetenschappers-via-het-tulp-fonds-naar-nederland
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816003

2026-07-04 00:25:12 GMT

Espionage Against the European Parliament
Link: https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779683

2026-07-03 23:50:14 GMT

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
Link: https://github.com/jamesob/local-llm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775921

2026-07-03 23:30:11 GMT

Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror
Link: https://wordgard.net/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772573

2026-06-27 05:40:11 GMT

Om
Link: https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693391

2026-05-26 12:25:11 GMT

How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works
Link: https://ente.com/blog/how-shamirs-secret-sharing-works/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272715

2026-05-22 21:35:12 GMT

Deno 2.8
Link: https://deno.com/blog/v2.8
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234380

2026-05-15 13:35:10 GMT

Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
Link: https://explorer.samismith.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146129

2026-05-08 16:25:10 GMT

Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
Link: https://storica.club/blog/pinocchio-in-italian/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035420

2026-05-05 04:10:12 GMT

Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
Link: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880

2026-05-05 00:55:11 GMT

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
Link: https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013919

2026-05-04 20:40:11 GMT

I am worried about Bun
Link: https://wwj.dev/posts/i-am-worried-about-bun/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011184

2026-05-04 19:40:11 GMT

US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/us-healthcare-marketplaces-shared-citizenship-and-race-data-with-ad-tech-giants/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011689

2026-05-04 13:10:11 GMT

GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p8yled1do
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006402

2026-05-04 10:40:11 GMT

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers
Link: https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977990

2026-05-04 04:40:11 GMT

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper
Link: https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002136

2026-05-04 04:25:10 GMT

Let's Buy Spirit Air
Link: https://letsbuyspiritair.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002777

2026-05-04 04:10:11 GMT

Agentic Coding Is a Trap
Link: https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002442

2026-04-30 09:15:10 GMT

The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957294

2026-04-09 21:35:13 GMT

Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
Link: https://braw.dev/blog/2026-04-06-reallocating-100-month-claude-spend/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700972

2026-03-27 00:10:11 GMT

New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/new-york-hospitals-palantir-ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535371

2026-03-25 17:45:13 GMT

Local LLM App by Ente
Link: https://ente.com/blog/ensu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47516650

2026-03-07 16:50:12 GMT

Helix: A post-modern text editor
Link: https://helix-editor.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282701

2026-03-04 12:15:12 GMT

When AI writes the software, who verifies it?
Link: https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026/02/28/when-ai-writes-the-worlds-software.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234917

2026-02-10 06:30:12 GMT

Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
Link: https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947777

2026-02-08 13:00:14 GMT

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
Link: https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930391

2026-02-06 22:40:11 GMT

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
Link: https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913793

2026-02-06 00:25:11 GMT

My AI Adoption Journey
Link: https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903558

2026-02-05 14:15:12 GMT

Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
Link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-pivotal-ai-product-is-running-into-big-problems-ce235b28
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887564

2026-02-05 08:30:11 GMT

The Great Unwind
Link: https://occupywallst.com/yen
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889008

2026-02-04 11:05:11 GMT

Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust
Link: https://github.com/j178/prek
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873138

2026-02-04 06:50:11 GMT

I miss thinking hard
Link: https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881264

2026-01-31 21:10:11 GMT

Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media
Link: https://yle.fi/a/74-20207494
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838417

2026-01-31 21:05:11 GMT

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
Link: https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838597

2026-01-31 15:25:11 GMT

Code is cheap. Show me the talk
Link: https://nadh.in/blog/code-is-cheap/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823485

2026-01-31 13:25:12 GMT

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/30/euro_firms_must_ditch_us/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835336

2026-01-31 10:40:12 GMT

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
Link: https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832074

2026-01-31 08:55:11 GMT

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
Link: https://peerweb.lol/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829582

2026-01-31 06:55:11 GMT

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
Link: https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/27/surely-it-has-to-be-soon/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822630

2026-01-31 06:45:12 GMT

The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
Link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46831702

2026-01-31 04:40:11 GMT

Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]
Link: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5/blob/master/tech_report.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826597

2026-01-31 03:30:12 GMT

HTTP Cats
Link: https://http.cat/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824422

2026-01-30 23:15:12 GMT

The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46773655

2026-01-30 21:20:12 GMT

Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
Link: https://antirender.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829147

2026-01-30 19:10:12 GMT

Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time
Link: https://ztechtalk.com/microsoft-teams
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827003

2026-01-30 18:10:13 GMT

Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers
Link: https://www.wpr.org/news/4-wisconsin-communities-signed-secrecy-deals-billion-dollar-data-centers
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824098

2026-01-30 17:15:10 GMT

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820924

2026-01-30 16:30:14 GMT

Flameshot
Link: https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815297

2026-01-30 15:50:11 GMT

Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
Link: https://openai.com/index/retiring-gpt-4o-and-older-models/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816539

2026-01-30 15:10:11 GMT

The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)
Link: https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816357

2026-01-30 15:00:12 GMT

Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Link: https://www.blender.org/press/netflix-animation-studios-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821134

2026-01-30 14:45:11 GMT

Software Pump and Dump
Link: http://tautvilas.lt/software-pump-and-dump/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776848

2026-01-30 14:25:12 GMT

Tesla's Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor
Link: https://electrek.co/2026/01/29/teslas-own-robotaxi-data-confirms-crash-rate-3x-worse-than-humans-even-with-monitor/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822632

2026-01-30 13:00:12 GMT

GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
Link: https://www.xda-developers.com/gog-calls-linux-the-next-major-frontier-for-gaming-as-it-works-on-a-native-client/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821774

2026-01-30 11:55:11 GMT

OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
Link: https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820783

2026-01-30 08:00:11 GMT

Moltbook
Link: https://www.moltbook.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820360

2026-01-30 07:00:11 GMT

Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
Link: https://grid.space/stem/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46817813

2026-01-30 05:35:11 GMT

AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
Link: https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-agent-evals
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46809708

2026-01-30 01:30:11 GMT

A lot of population numbers are fake
Link: https://davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-population-numbers-are-fake
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810027

2026-01-30 01:05:12 GMT

PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
Link: https://redgamingtech.com/playstation-2-recompilation-project-is-absolutely-incredible/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814743

2026-01-29 23:45:12 GMT

County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security
Link: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/county-pays-600000-to-pentesters-it-arrested-for-assessing-courthouse-security/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814614

2026-01-29 23:10:11 GMT

Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/waymo-robotaxi-hits-a-child-near-an-elementary-school-in-santa-monica/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810401

2026-01-29 20:55:11 GMT

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
Link: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812933

2026-01-29 19:05:13 GMT

US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report
Link: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/us-cybersecurity-chief-leaked-sensitive-government-files-to-chatgpt-report-3311462/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812173

2026-01-29 17:20:13 GMT

Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking
Link: https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810282

2026-01-29 12:40:12 GMT

Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
Link: https://blog.ncase.me/on-depression/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808251

2026-01-29 11:40:14 GMT

Android’s desktop interface leaks
Link: https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/android-desktop-leak/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790740

2026-01-29 11:25:10 GMT

Europe's next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
Link: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Europe_s_next-generation_weather_satellite_sends_back_first_images
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806773

2026-01-29 10:35:12 GMT

Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
Link: https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804828

2026-01-29 08:15:11 GMT

Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
Link: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/28/patreon-apple-tax/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801419

2026-01-29 07:45:14 GMT

Tesla ending Models S and X production
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla-ending-model-s-x-production.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802867

2026-01-29 07:40:12 GMT

We can't send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
Link: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805665

2026-01-29 03:20:12 GMT

UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M
Link: https://mahadk.com/posts/ai-skills-hub
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803119

2026-01-29 01:25:11 GMT

Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In
Link: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/please-dont-say-mean-things-about-the-ai-that-i-just-invested-a-billion-dollars-in
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803356

2026-01-29 00:20:12 GMT

Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance
Link: https://alecmuffett.com/article/143548
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802067

2026-01-28 20:30:11 GMT

Airfoil (2024)
Link: https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795908

2026-01-28 19:30:11 GMT

Show HN: The HN Arcade
Link: https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793693

2026-01-28 17:45:13 GMT

Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency
Link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/amazon-cuts-16000-jobs-globally-broader-restructuring-2026-01-28/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796745

2026-01-28 17:35:13 GMT

There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him
Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/91477114/steve-wozniak-woz-apple-the-tech-interactive-humanitarian-award
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735407

2026-01-28 15:55:11 GMT

Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
Link: https://www.himthe.dev/blog/microsoft-to-linux
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795864

2026-01-28 13:40:12 GMT

ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants
Link: https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s168
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794365

2026-01-28 13:10:11 GMT

Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
Link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-closing-fresh-grocery-convenience-150437789.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781444

2026-01-28 12:10:11 GMT

ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions
Link: https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2026/strengthening-focus-on-engineering-and-innovation
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46792370

2026-01-28 11:35:13 GMT

Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC
Link: https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779522

2026-01-28 04:35:11 GMT

Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son
Link: https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/single/lick-theft
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787521

2026-01-28 04:30:12 GMT

Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
Link: https://amutable.com/about
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572

2026-01-28 03:05:11 GMT

Doing the thing is doing the thing
Link: https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/doing-the-thing-is-doing-the-thing
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776155

2026-01-28 00:15:12 GMT

Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
Link: https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779645

2026-01-28 00:10:11 GMT

A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
Link: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46771564

2026-01-27 22:40:12 GMT

Prism
Link: https://openai.com/index/introducing-prism
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783752

2026-01-27 21:20:12 GMT

FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/fbi-investigating-minnesota-signal-minneapolis-group-ice-patel-kash-rcna256041
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783254